Hospitals are clearly pivotal to the apparatus of medicine, to the management of disease, life, and death.41 They are also part of the defining structures of modernity. The French thinker Michel Foucault famously aligned hospitals with asylums, prisons, barracks, factories, and schools as an array of institutions that, by the early nineteenth century, formed the matrix for liberal visions both of individual freedom and collective order.42 In the contemporary world, one might want to add other great containers of modern life such as offices, shopping malls, hotels, casinos, amusement parks, and
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